50 David Lowery Quotes for You to Enjoy

David Lowery

American Director

Born: Dec 26, 1980

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Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye. David Lowery

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When you have a lot going on in a scene - whether it be a lot of shots, a lot of coverage, a lot of edits, or just the amount of content - it can cover up a deficit of true feeling. But when you don't have a lot of material to work with, you really have to be sincere with everything. You really have to mean it, because there's nowhere to hide. David Lowery

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I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts. David Lowery

Atheist Believe Ghosts Afterlife

I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them. David Lowery

Love Random Films Chaotic Finding More Them Moments Capturing

When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could. David Lowery

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I've never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I do feel presences around me all the time, and I do feel that memories haunt us the way ghosts haunt us or might haunt characters in a film. David Lowery

I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me. David Lowery

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There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid. David Lowery

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I like roller coasters that have the one 70-foot drop. David Lowery

Drop Like Roller

When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there. David Lowery

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In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection. David Lowery

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I'm sentimental to a fault. David Lowery

Fault Sentimental

My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook - I was living in L.A. at the time - and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters. David Lowery

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I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand. David Lowery

Great Great Deal Value Take Executed Deal Hand Done Things

I love horror films. I love ghost movies and haunted-house movies. David Lowery

Love Films Ghost Horror Horror Films Movies

I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.' David Lowery

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I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing. David Lowery

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No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just depends on what sort of favors you can call, and what sort of dynamics you can pull in the play. David Lowery

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I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore. David Lowery

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